For this year’s project, the Wesleyan community donated stuffing, gravy, pies and other foodstuffs; students and staff from the Allbritton Center helped register families at Amazing Grace Food Pantry from Oct. 31 to Nov. 18; students and staff, including the men’s crew and women’s lacrosse teams, helped with packing almost 1,000 boxes of food at Fellowship Church on Nov. 21; and staff from Wesleyan’s Office of Student Activities and Leadership Development helped distribute the food to Middletown residents in need on Nov. 22. The women’s lacrosse team also collected more than $600 to contribute to the project.

“Bon Appetit, Wesleyan’s food service management partner, really saved the project this year by renting a refrigerated truck for us when we found ourselves without one,” Martinez said. “Without that, we wouldn’t have had anywhere to store the 1,000 turkeys we gave out.”

At the Nov. 21 event, Wesleyan students helped stuff 1,000 boxes with everything families will need for a Thanksgiving dinner celebration. “This project is successful because it shows what’s possible when many people give what they can,” Martinez said. “A small food donation, a two-hour shift volunteering—it all pools together to facilitate hundreds of family gatherings and opportunities for healing, reflection and network strengthening all across our city.”

This Saturday at 6pm: Senior Voices 2018 in Memorial Chapel. All are welcome as members of #Wes2018 reflect on their past four years at Wes.
We snapped this photo of David Machado ’18 as he rehearsed in Memorial Chapel with Father Bill yesterday.

Join us on Facebook at 2pm today for a live discussion with two of the first graduating class of @possefoundation veteran-students, along with their faculty mentor, Professor Andy Szegedy-Maszak: fal.cn/y42H